Vertical Horizontal Filter

Technical Analysis Indicator: vhf

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Function Prototype

/* Vertical Horizontal Filter */
/* Type: indicator */
/* Input arrays: 1    Options: 1    Output arrays: 1 */
/* Inputs: real */
/* Options: period */
/* Outputs: vhf */
int ti_vhf_start(TI_REAL const *options);
int ti_vhf(int size,
      TI_REAL const *const *inputs,
      TI_REAL const *options,
      TI_REAL *const *outputs);

Description

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The Vertical Horizontal Filter indicator helps detect trends.

It takes one parameter, the period n.

It is calculated as follows:

$$hcp_{t} = maximum(in_{t}, in_{t-1}, ..., in_{t-n+1}) $$
$$lcp_{t} = minimum(in_{t}, in_{t-1}, ..., in_{t-n+1}) $$
$$vhf_{t} = \frac{| hcp_{t} - lcp_{t} |}{\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} | close_{t-i} - close_{t-i-1} | }$$

See Also

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Example Usage

Calling From C

/* Example usage of Vertical Horizontal Filter */
/* Assuming that 'input' is a pre-loaded array of size 'in_size'. */
TI_REAL *inputs[] = {input};
TI_REAL options[] = {5}; /* period */
TI_REAL *outputs[1]; /* vhf */

/* Determine how large the output size is for our options. */
const int out_size = in_size - ti_vhf_start(options);

/* Allocate memory for output. */
outputs[0] = malloc(sizeof(TI_REAL) * out_size); assert(outputs[0] != 0); /* vhf */

/* Run the actual calculation. */
const int ret = ti_vhf(in_size, inputs, options, outputs);
assert(ret == TI_OKAY);

Calling From Lua (with Tulip Chart bindings)

-- Example usage of Vertical Horizontal Filter
vhf = ti.vhf(input, 5)

Example Calculation

period = 5

dateinputvhf
2005-11-0181.59
2005-11-0281.06
2005-11-0382.87
2005-11-0483.00
2005-11-0783.61
2005-11-0883.150.72
2005-11-0982.840.23
2005-11-1083.990.43
2005-11-1184.550.55
2005-11-1484.360.64
2005-11-1585.530.80
2005-11-1686.540.63
2005-11-1786.890.77
2005-11-1887.770.95
2005-11-2187.290.58

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